Trends and Disparities Around Cardiovascular Mortality in Sarcoidosis: Does Big Data Have the Answers?
Raheel Ahmed, Rakesh Sharma, C. Anwar A. Chahal
Abstract
In this issue of the Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA), Tan et al have taken up the challenge to describe the trends and disparities in cardiovascular mortality, excluding ischemic heart disease, among patients with sarcoidosis from 1999 to 2020 using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Wide-Ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research database. The authors calculated age-adjusted mortality rates (AAMR) per 1 000 000 individuals and determined how demographic and geographic factors affected it. They should be commended for demonstrating that AAMR (1) increased over the 22-year period, (2) was higher in women, (3) was higher in people with Black ancestry, (4) was highest in the 55-to 64-year-old cohort, (5) was highest in the South region, (6) was higher in urban regsions, specifically large